Do you believe it or not?

Madisyn 2022-04-23 07:01:17


At the hearing, the black host asked: You didn't bring back evidence, no video footage, no artefacts, just stories with questionable credibility. With over fifty million dollars spent, over a dozen lives lost, are you going to sit there and say to us, accept it all with one faith?
The heroine looked at her priestly boyfriend and replied, "Is that possible that it never happened?" Yes. As a scientist, I have to admit, I must voluntarily admit this. and a string of yes.
The priestly boyfriend was starting to be a little disappointed, maybe the answer he was expecting was: I've had that experience, I've been through it, so it's true, it's impossible to pretend it didn't happen.
Judging by the film's performance, the female scientist did experience that wonderful moment, but she was caught in a situation that could not be proved and could not be falsified. In science, it might just be the hallucinations of female scientists in extremely stimulating environments; in religion, it might be a miracle.
(But between the two wormhole transitions, there was a flash of a construct, implying a materiality that skewed the narrative toward science.)
A film that captures this divide has the potential to become Classic base. The film exploits the divide between science and religion. "The Fantastic Journey of Young Pi" took advantage of the divide between good and evil in the extreme environment, and it was also successful.

A digression: in the face of a crime, even if you conclude from various signs that the suspect killed someone, you have no evidence or the evidence is lost.
Some people will answer: Is it possible that the suspect did not kill? Yes,
some people will answer: You are the murderer! Even if you are acquitted by a court, you are bound to suffer in hell (or die well).
Quite a few people think of themselves as the former when they have a rational discussion; if the incident happened to themselves or someone close to them, they tend to the latter.

If the movie cuts out the plot of the heroine passing through the wormhole and seeing the virtual father, and replaces it with the simple narration of the heroine, as an audience, which side do you stand on? To believe or not to believe?

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Extended Reading

Contact quotes

  • Voice of NASA: [When the first Machine starts on] We have begun the full scale test of Earth's first system built by the sharing of knowledge with a neighbour in our Universe.

  • Palmer Joss: [during the IMC's candidates selection] Do you believe in God, Dr. Arroway?